Fifty Grand

Fifty Grand, manufactured by Specialty Manufacturing Company of Chicago and dated to June 1941, is a single-player electromechanical pinball machine from the years just before pinball adopted the flipper — an innovation that wouldn't arrive until 1947.

Detailed information about Fifty Grand's specific gameplay features, artwork, or theme has not survived. Like many EM machines of its era, it likely relied on bumpers, targets, and skillful plunging and nudging to control ball movement and scoring rather than any player-operated flippers.

Given the scarcity of surviving records, Fifty Grand remains a little-documented piece of early-1940s pinball history, its main interest lying in its place within Specialty Manufacturing's catalog from the period.